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World’s first ‘superfast’ battery offers 400km range from 10 mins charge
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Imagine I'm a car salesman who doesn't give a shit about EVs. I just want to sell a car.
"This car right here, you can fill 'er up in 1 hour! Oh but this feller, well she only takes 60 seconds, and has twice the range to boot!"
The average person isn't going to care that the first car is an EV and the second car is gas-powered.
Most people can't afford to get charging set up at home for overnight charging, either. You're also not considering emergency scenarios where people won't have time to wait an hour for their vehicles to charge.
The scenario you're imagining is an ideal scenario, not working with the current reality we have right now. The industry is working on making EVs charge extremely quickly because they believe it is a major selling point for their vehicles. Which, for the average person, it absolutely is. If EVs want to outsell gas-powered vehicles consistently, they need to meet the basics of being able to fill up quickly and having identical range.
Isn't. Just like phone makers are pushing fast charging. Nice to have but not required.
You and everyone else on this car forum forget. Cars are luxury products that have only been around 100 years.
We managed before cars. Since the beginning of humans we've managed without electricity cars and most other things. We can change the use
The average person you are trying to sell a basic car to is not going to agree with the 'it's just a luxury product' when their car is a crucial component of how they get to their work, their home, how they pickup their kids, how they pickup their groceries, and how they visit their family.
And the Amish manage today without them as well. I don't want to be Amish.
If you truly are trying to sell EVs to people over ICE cars, you need to meet them where they are at. And, as the person above stated, fill-up times, range, and purchase price are all crucial selling points you need to compete on.